Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be little " in BNC.
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| 1 | — is not it clear that Government policies on manufacturing industry have been little short of disastrous ? |
| 2 | The whole performance had been little more than a formality , to give an appearance of government by consensus . |
| 3 | After all the speculation about the possible disagreements between them , their encounter has been little short of anodyne . |
| 4 | He claimed that her private world had been little more than an experiment in frenzy , and that a breakdown had been inevitable . |
| 5 | This paper has largely been limited to the processes within education — the ways they have been part of a wider process of economic and political domination have been little more than hinted at . |
| 6 | In the immediate post-war years , the Minister of Defence had been little more than the co-ordinator of the three autonomous Service Ministries and the Ministry of Supply . |
| 7 | Since her return to England , her existence had been little more than a living nightmare . |
| 8 | As Kierkegaard remarked , the method which doubts in order to philosophize is little more suited to its purpose than the notion of teaching a soldier to stand up straight by learning to lie down in a heap . |
| 9 | However , resistance on the part of the Uruguayan government to Soviet overtures in 1959 for a larger share of the market indicated that the agreement had been little more than a contingency measure on the part of Montevideo . |